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On the wall of the National Silicon-based LED Engineering Technology Research Center of Nanchang University, the big red characters "More light, less heat" are particularly eye-catching. The center focuses on LED research. For light-emitting diodes, if you want to "light more", you must "heat less", so that the electro-optical conversion efficiency is high and the energy can be maximized. This gives people inspiration: for scientific researchers, if they want to have more output and more returns in scientific research, they must try to reduce unnecessary time and energy consumption and protect their enthusiasm for scientific research, so that their value can be released to the greatest extent.

"More light, less heat", there is such a story: from the academician resigning as "vice president" to the doctor giving up the department-level status, none of the more than 30 scientists here has an administrative level. They voluntarily give up their leadership positions in order to better devote themselves to and focus on scientific research.

Resigning voluntarily may seem unexpected, but there is a self-consistent logic in it. As Wang Guangxu, deputy director of the center, said, when researchers have administrative ranks, "a lot of their time will be taken up by administrative affairs", and it is inconvenient for them to represent the laboratory in investing in enterprises with administrative positions, which is "not conducive to the transformation of scientific and technological achievements". The research conducted by the laboratory is oriented towards industrialization, and "being free from official duties" can better focus on scientific research and transformation of achievements, "more light, less heat". This reminds me of a story. At the age of 84, Academician Zhong Nanshan still insisted on seeing patients every week. A colleague told him in the elevator: You went to the toilet once during your consultation. He said: I dare not drink more water, drinking more water is not good. "I dare not drink more water" is to leave more time for patients. Whether it is "resigning voluntarily" or "I dare not drink more water", the purpose is to focus on scientific research to the greatest extent. This focus on academics and work is touching.

Excellent scientific researchers engaged in administrative management have their unique advantages in formulating scientific research strategies and leading technical research, and can also play the mission value of scholar-officials. Unfortunately, some scientific researchers originally had the ability and skills to play their value in the scientific research track, but their scientific research path was interrupted by disturbances outside of scientific research. For example, many scientific researchers are "enthusiastic" about administrative levels, not from the perspective of aspirational management and job fit, but relying on "fame and fortune drive". Once they enter management positions, they often fall into the socializing of welcoming and seeing off, and abandon scientific research. There are also some unreasonable scientific research management systems that also deviate from the main business of scientific researchers. Some scientific researchers are trapped in the red tape of scientific research management and have to waste their time filling out forms, sorting files, and solving reimbursement problems; some scientific researchers are forced by factors such as personal relationships to be busy with socializing and speaking on the platform, and nearly half of their scientific research time is squeezed and misappropriated. These phenomena have consumed the time, energy, and enthusiasm of scientific researchers, and also affected the release of scientific research potential.

At present, science and technology are developing at a rapid pace, and the competition around the commanding heights of science and technology is unprecedentedly fierce. To master the core technology, it is necessary to eliminate interference for scientific and technological personnel and let scientific researchers "shine more and heat less". In this regard, many scientific research practitioners have put forward many opinions, such as improving leadership and working methods to avoid administrative management of scientific research units; deepening the "delegation, regulation and service" reform in the field of scientific research, giving project leaders greater autonomy; improving the management of scientific research funds, and minimizing interference with scientific research activities. These are key measures to help scientific researchers focus on scientific research and avoid wasting energy. They are also the core of releasing my country's scientific research potential and helping to tackle key technologies that "stuck the neck". "Using ambition without division, it is concentrated in the spirit." Cut off unnecessary "branches" in the allocation of time and energy for scientific and technological personnel, so that the towering tree of Chinese scientific research can be deeply rooted and flourishing, and the foundation can be evergreen, and we can cross the difficult journey of "mastering core technologies".

(Han Zongfeng)